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There was a charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill by Frederic Remington. In reality, they assaulted San Juan Heights and the portion later called Kettle Hill by the Americans. -
Theodore Roosevelt was a leader of the progressive movement and championed his "Square Deal" domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. -
Teddy beat out previous President William McKinley by more than 2.5 million popular votes. -
The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, resulted in a victory for the hard-coal miners with a 10% increase in wages and an hours reduction in their working day -
This Act required that water users repay construction costs from which they received benefits. -
This Act's intent was to prohibit railroads from providing rebates to preferred customers. -
Roosevelt's Department of Justice prosecuted the Northern Securities Company for violating the Sherman Act. In 1904, the Supreme Court agreed with the administration's position, and ordered the Northern Securities company dissolved. -
John Muir took Roosevelt to Yosemite in an attempt to persuade him to take the land under federal control and establish it as a national park, which Roosevelt did in 1906. -
This Act prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food as well as confirming that livestock were slaughtered and stored in sanitary locations. -
This law provided improved medical care for people sickened by unsafe food. The law required that food be inspected by the government to ensure its safety. -
This voyage's purpose was to collect specimens for the Smithsonian's new Natural History museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History. -
The Bull-Moose party provided a Progressive platform called for the direct election of U.S. senators, woman suffrage, reduction of the tariff and many social reforms.